Sports fund­ing

Skate­board­ing, surf­ing and soft­ball will re­ceive Gov­ern­ment fund­ing for the first time ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Wheel­chair rugby – which pre­vi­ously had its fund­ing cut – has also se­cured in­vest­ment from a new £3 mil­lion As­pi­ra­tion Fund out­lined in de­tail last night by UK Sport. Bri­tish Hand­ball, which pre­vi­ously said the fund­ing pack­age had come more than 10 months too late for Tokyo 2020, is not on the list.